temat

See also: témát

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin thema (genitive thematis). First attested in the 19th century. Compare Kashubian téma and Silesian tymat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.mat/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmat
• Syllabification: te‧mat

Noun

temat m inan (diminutive temacik, related adjective tematowy or tematyczny)

1. subject (main topic)

   Synonym: przedmiot

2. (linguistics) theme, topic (what is generally being talked about)

   Coordinate term: remat

3. (grammar) stem (part of a word invariant under inflection)

   Synonym: rdzeń

4. (music) theme (main melody of a piece of music)

   Synonym: motyw

5. (chess) base idea on which a chess task is based (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

Declension of temat

	singular	plural
nominative	temat	tematy
genitive	tematu	tematów
dative	tematowi	tematom
accusative	temat	tematy
instrumental	tematem	tematami
locative	temacie	tematach
vocative	temacie	tematy

Derived terms

nouns

• temat rzeka
• temat zastępczy

 

Related terms

adjectives

• atematyczny
• beztematyczny

 

adverbs

• tematowo
• tematycznie

 

nouns

• autotematyzm
• tematologia
• tematowość
• tematyczność
• tematyka

 

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), temat is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 21 times in scientific texts, 57 times in news, 45 times in essays, 25 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 160 times, making it the 363rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Further reading

• temat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• temat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• temat in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Swedish

Noun

temat

1. definite singular of tema

Anagrams

• matte, metat